biography
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Hanbury-Tenison, Robin (Airling)
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| lived:
| (1936– )
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| biography:
| Explorer, writer, and broadcaster, brought up in Ireland. He studied at Oxford, and in 1958 achieved the first land crossing of South America at its widest point. He crossed the Sahara many times by camel (1962–6), and took part in both British Hovercraft expeditions in Amazonas (1968) and trans-Africa (1969). He took part in the British Trans-Americas expedition of 1972, crossing the Darien Gap and writing a report on the impact of the road on the Cuna Indians. He led the Royal Geographical Society's Gunung Mulu (Sarawak) Expedition 1977–8, involving 115 scientists in a multi-disciplinary survey of a tropical forest ecosystem in a newly created national park. Following his travels through South America, his concern for Indian tribes led to him being one of the founding members of Survival International, of which he is now president. |
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